tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post8249161541057009042..comments2016-12-09T07:22:39.222-08:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Esther Dyson on the future of searchGreg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-2576114608040177202007-05-10T09:38:00.000-07:002007-05-10T09:38:00.000-07:00Thinking this over, the bots that make Google's se...Thinking this over, the bots that make Google's search work are very rudimentary "deliver, act and transact" softbots (follow all the links on the page, follow algorithms to determine the quality of the page, put the page in a database, use other algorithms to determine the meaning of words on the page compared to the meaning of words in a search query).<BR/><BR/>I'm not saying that we're very close. I am saying that we've started. Getting from where we are to where Dyson is suggesting (essentially a portal where you can build your own Googlebots without actually programming them -- think Yahoo Pipes coupled with (a) some form of Bayesian statistics or real AI algorithms, *and* (b) some programmability to react to (a)'s discoveries) is a long way off. But I do think we've started.Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13935322217857952629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-44188660944654903052007-05-10T08:54:00.000-07:002007-05-10T08:54:00.000-07:00I may very well be wrong, but I thought Esther Dys...I may very well be wrong, but I thought Esther Dyson was/is an early investor in Powerset. So despite what her mouth says about personalization, it seems that her money is on strong NLP. Or maybe she has personalization investments, too, and is just hedging her bets..jeremynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-22601838133334164212007-05-09T19:36:00.000-07:002007-05-09T19:36:00.000-07:00What would be a first step towards an agent based ...What would be a first step towards an agent based system?<BR/>With more and more well-described services perhaps an agent could find and prepare for purchase - add to cart, create reservation, etc- interesting items.Mike Dierkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406913273929110651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-76694550389037042582007-05-09T18:57:00.000-07:002007-05-09T18:57:00.000-07:00Has Esther Dyson, or anyone at all,ever correctly ...Has Esther Dyson, or anyone at all,<BR/>ever correctly predicted the future of<BR/>anything?<BR/><BR/>You can put all these keynote speakers<BR/>in the 70s on the ARPAnet and see if they<BR/>could have predicted email, the web,<BR/>instant messaging, e-commerce, file sharing,<BR/>social networking, or any of the other stuff that<BR/>actually works and flourishes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com